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Apols if this discussion has already been had, but I'm prompted to post this after searching the Electoral Commission website just now for promo materials on the Bham Mayor referendum in Chinese…Continue

" I caught most of this interview in the Radio this evening. It is stunning how such educated and intelligent people can still come out with such utter drivel. McCloskey said she wanted the people of Bangladesh and Sub-Saharan Africa to…"

Prof Richard Wilkinson spoke at Birmingham's Fairbrum event yesterday. I know many people here have read The Spirit Level - probably everybody - but here's the slide set from yesterday's talk which may contain information not in the book (so now you know I haven't read it). It was a really interesting presentation, sadly curtailed by the Chair who felt it necessary to invite Qs even though the audience clearly wanted Prof Wilkinson to reach the conclusion he plainly hadn't reached. …See More

"Should ask Joe to put an irony meter on here :-) A key difference is that the BS existed anyway, and not as a thing ordered by government and designed by civil servants after a three year Henry T Ford-style consultation process.
This IPPR…"

"My goodness, the Transformation Challenge Award is for cost savings and innovation - not linked at all with actual effective or quality delivery. Basically they are giving more money to tory councils that cut costs. I can see the Public Service…"

"Sorry Matt: PSED = Public Sector Equality Duty; VCO = Voluntary/Community organisation; VCS = Voluntary/community sector. VCO and VCS are terms that lead to heated debates in themselves (probably some on this site), but I'm not going down that…"

"I went to a local social enterprise meeting last night where Wolverhampton Council Procurement Head gave a presentation on the Social Value Act. The Act has its limitations - it doesn't guarantee work for local VCOs or the VCS generally,…"

Prof Richard Wilkinson spoke at Birmingham's Fairbrum event yesterday. I know many people here have read The Spirit Level - probably everybody - but here's the slide set from yesterday's talk which may contain information not in the book (so now you know I haven't read it).

It was a really interesting presentation, sadly curtailed by the Chair who felt it necessary to invite Qs even though the audience clearly wanted Prof Wilkinson to reach the conclusion he plainly hadn't…